Buff Bellied Pipit- Shetland

Arrived at Rerwick only to find three others present, not a good sign

Roger Riddington had found the bird at Clavel about an hour before. Just ten another 4 people arrived and the search started

The bird was re-found down on the beach but then called and flew back up the hill. By this time the wind had really started started to pick up making photography very difficult

 managed to see the bird on a steep slope and got a few shots from a distance. Good VR on the Sony system which helped.

It then flew again back down to the burn, so i decided to leave it as the wind was very strong at this point.

Another American bird turned up the week before and stayed a week, this is the White Winged Scoter at Wadbister (4th from right). I was the only person present. A difficult one to find as it was in a small eider flock but kept flying off. Luckly it came back, so only the swell to contend with